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ID: 901001813
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001813
Record Type: Literature

Trojan Women, The (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE)

Note: Tragedy by Euripides, first produced in 415 BCE during the Peloponnesian War; about the consequences of Trojan war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in war. Seen as a commentary on the contemporary capture of the Aegean island of Melos.

Display Date: 415 BCE

Names:
Trojan Women, The (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE) (preferred,English-P,D)
Women of Troy (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE) (English)
Τρῳάδες (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE) (Greek)
Trōiades (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE) (Greek (transliterated)-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: Drama (plays, etc.)> (P)
............Trojan Women, The (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... drama (literary genre)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
author is .... Euripides (Greek playwright, ca. 484-406 BCE)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
role/characteristic is .... tragedy (document genre)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Trojan Women, The (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Women of Troy (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Τρῳάδες (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE)
................Wikipedia (2000-)
Trōiades (Euripides, tragedy, Euripides, 415 BCE)
................Wikipedia (2000-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Bird, Trojan Women (2012)

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